CORBIE'S GAME BLOG

I had just celebrated my 15th birthday and I had some money to spend. So when I found out my uncle was driving into the city, I gave him $40 and I made a list of 3 NES games I wanted. Well two that I wanted, anyway. My first choice was a game that I wanted so badly I could barely stand it. It was Legend of Zelda. The only problem was that it was sold out at almost every game store around. That's where my number two choice comes in with Deadly Towers. I didn't know much about this game but I had seen some screenshots of it and it looked really cool. Now I had to come up with one more choice just in case the store didn't have either of my first two choices so I just wrote down a game I had seen in an advertisement somewhere and that game was Castlevania. I remember all day long I just kept hoping that my uncle would come back with either Zelda or Deadly Towers, and not Castlevania. But when he came home and I opened the sack, guess what game was in there. Castlevania. I was pretty dissapointed and I remember just throwing the sack on my bed and going back out with my friends on our dirt bikes until dark.

After it finally got dark, I came home and there sat that bag. My first thought was to just leave the game in the shrinkwrap and return it to the store once they got a Legend of Zelda game in. Truth is, I was bored and couldn't stand it so I tore into the game, popped it into my NES, and discovered a game that would become one of my all-time favorite games, not to mention series. I loved everything about the game from the graphics to the amazing soundtrack. Even the fact that the game was really high on the difficulty scale didn't affect my enjoyment of the game. To this day, I still drag out the original NES Castlevania game and play through it, if only to prove to myself that I can still finish it. Over the years I've bought 12 other Castlevania games, including the terrific PC Engine version of the game that's one of the best games ever made. If you've never played a Castlevania game, do yourself a huge favor and track down at least one game in the series. Just make sure it's not the horrible 3-D renditions for the Nintendo 64. Castlevania is one of the greatest video game series ever, and it's still thriving today, over 20 years later.